According to the report, nearly all IT decision makers agree that IAM is important to the success of their company’s digital business. At the executive level, it tops priority lists and is seen as a strategic function of growth initiatives. Of the senior leadership teams who responded, 84 percent think IAM is critical to cloud adoption, 89 percent consider it critical to mobility initiatives and 81 percent think it's an important enabler of IoT initiatives.

Participants of this survey are IT decision makers in the U.S., the U.K., France and Germany who are responsible for overseeing technology deployments.